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solo effort by JNH, that's what everyone should've gotten!!!! Top 10 A continuation of the more brutal aspects of Schindler's List.

Batman Begins BB introduced new ways to imagine and produce blockbuster scores to the audience. It deals with the kind of personal trauma that very often defines people's lives. I needed a break from Williams' philosophy of film scoring and I'm rewarded with a maturing experience. Munich Some people say it's imitative but I disagree. It's still Williams.

I love how superman II ends in the alternate cut, so it's S2 for me.

Amidala From the creators of Black Swan comes a violent story of love and torture. Amidala has been a good wife to her husband, Anakin Skywalker. After a climactic duel between him and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin is behind bars. She must now provide for her family as a senator in the corrupt Galactic Senate.

The score is okay but the film is so bad, it's below The Rise of Skywalker for me. What a great example of cultural invasion.

Meanwhile, Mickey dives in his cash.

Empire of the Sun Cadillac of the Skies Mrs. Victor and James The Return to the City Schindler's List Making The List Give Me Your Names Yeroushalaim Chel Zahav (Jerusalem Of Gold) A.I. The Specialist Visits The Reunion Where Dreams Are Born

Looking back, I think a lot people were happy that there was some connection between female characters in TFA. You don't see a lot of that in the previous six. The scene with Rey and Maz was genuinely moving. https://youtu.be/1N-ORTaJM3o?t=182 The music, the mood & Ridley's performance were all perfect. It's a shame that since VII, whenever Rey is with a female character, she or the other character just dumps info.

Any TNG episode > Any Picard episode Just bring back the gang. The show's too dark.

Rey's Theme really is the best thing from the ST!

It's sad to see people submit themselves to manipulation. There's a video of fans cheering for KMT and JJ. That was April 2019.

Star Wars used to be a one-sided conversation on history, religion, politics, war and human relationships, made as a series of silent films for kids. Now it's being sold to young girls as original stories that provide an empowering message, with the high priest claiming that it has always been a religion. When you look at the Ewoks in ROTJ, you'd get a sense that you're invited to understand an alien culture of teddy bears. Kids! Let's be anthropologists for 15 minutes! Adults! Let's revisit the joys of childhood! Do the Sequels explore cultures? Do they ask questions about people? When Padme goes to Mustafar in ROTS, you're witnessing the consequences of ineffective communication between different powers, and how that breaks a family. Padme (love/giver of love) dies as other characters plunge into the Fascism vs Humans conflict. TROS touches upon this. But are we really going to believe that Lucasfilm had all this planned, that Rey was a Palpatine, and it's not another metatextual response to fan outrage? What have we been invited to see in TROS? Seriously, what have we gained as a civilization after watching TROS? Rey's afraid of who she is? Finn likes to yell? Kelly Marie Tran deserves to have her screentime cut? If I can travel back to 2015, I'll do anything to tell people to save their brains and stay away from this mess.

Letting It Go OR To Berlin

Jwfan will be so lost without JW. zimmer??? I personally can't imagine film without John Williams. If there's one person who's constantly reinventing film, it's John Williams. Film was ephemeral, now it's so much more. Can't wait for Indy 5!

Star Wars, then Aliens, then the Matrix. Are we stuck in a simulation??? Weaponized Intertextuality

I've given the whole Rey Skywalker thing more thought. I think it's just a really cheap way to ask kids to identify themselves with the now Disney-owned Star Wars brand. Imagine a young girl who's searching for mythology and legends to fulfill the very basic human need for religious comfort. Now picture her finishing ROTJ and putting TFA into the player. She'll be amazed or confused by it, having gone through 12 hours of boys fighting boys, suddenly entering this rabbit hole that is Rey, a character constructed from the iconography of all the presumably dead boy characters of the saga. Six hours later, Rey says the line. Rey isn't given a chance to establish an identity separate from the Skywalkers or the Palpatines. She's regurgitating stuff from the old films, while the film itself regurgitates the Binary Sunset, now shaped like BB-8. The BB-8 suns are cute. But I'm worried this ending would only encourage regurgitation. If the purpose of introducing Rey was to pose important questions for the young fangirls of SW, why throw in a yellow lightsaber, seemingly a symbol of individuality and creativity, when your character ends her journey with a name that means nothing to her. Why treat your character, the point of entry for a lot of girls, like a puppet?

The Ghost Writer

Having spent a huge chunk of my childhood shipping Anakin and Padme, I have to start by admitting that a lot the connections that I hear in ROTS aren't strictly musical. Adulthood sucks and I'm just one of those people who's trying to relive something that's gone. Music is personal and open to interpretation. Therefore, instead of giving answers, I'll only try to demonstrate whatever connection I hear between Rey's Theme and Across the Stars. I'll also have to preface this by thanking the Maestro for writing Rey's Theme. It has successfully helped me remember and conquer/take down/beat/accept/overcome certain memories of my past. For that I'm eternally grateful. Here's why despite the fact that it's a Disney product, I would still gladly consume it. May the Force be with you.

@Falstaft (hiatus til TROS) I grew up with the prequels. ATS left such an impression on me that whenever I hear music from a John Williams score that has similar progressions or allusions to Dies Irae, my brain goes crazy and screams ATS. But I'll elaborate tomorrow after I get some sleep and hopefully my answer would satisfying.

First TROS March Accolyte , if my post made you sad, I'm crying with you. I was "exposed" to the “Allegro con brio” of Beethoven's 5th when I was 3. It fucked my brain so hard that it gave me depression. I have to thank John Williams for bringing me out of that hell. As I grew older, I realized Beethoven had become some kind of a god for some musicians. That realization made me really sad. What may have been liberating is now part of some structure or system. And it gave me depression. Here's a message of hope. Music can evolve. It's already piercing through cultures and religions and inspiring powerful minds. It can hint at a better, liberalized future. It's still one of the few languages in the world that can truly group people from different continents together on a deep and visceral level. It can become the spiritual structure of this world if people work together, let go of their egos and build something that serves humanity.

John Williams is a part of old Hollywood. And hollywood has outsized itself for years now. There will be people who would label him and his art as OLD BORING. It's not John Williams who's outdated. It's music. Music is always outdated. We're merely caught in big changes in the media industry. Changes that probably disgust most of us. Media itself is not what it was 10 years ago. Theme park movies are now art to A LOT of people and most of theme probably believes that music stayed mostly the same until Rock saved the day. The language of music is changing and everyone including John Williams is adapting. Music is also corporate yet free! What an interesting dichotomy. And the song form has taken over the industry. The real reason music is declining and outdated? It gives people no power or fortune. It can't bring people to the moon and it's "not fun." It's a language, a religion. Music, especially what most people call classical, is a part of an old social construct that no longer exists for a lot people. Aside from the rich, who wants to go to a fancy concert hall just for a concert when I can stay at home and savor the weird but crazy hot sexual tension between Kylo Ren and Rey Palpatine? If the existing power structure of this world does not involve musicians and music, music itself will always be outdated, classical, jazzy, dissonant, popular, sexy, repetitive and dull. Music is a changing language but classical music is a declining religion. I'd like to think that John Williams isn't a part of all that. He serves powerful players like Disney, and those players always survive. He attaches great music to great power structures and therefore his music will last. Just look at how enduringly "popular" Micky Mouse is. The sad reality is that music can no longer define itself. It no longer has power. In this century, music must serve power. Whoever turns music into power wins this game. To make things worse, music is religious. It's old propaganda. Who wants propaganda when there is free will?

A part of me does agree with you. I don't know. I never understood that. At least it doesn't end with Binary Sunset. And starting from AOTC, Across the Stars practically dominates the rest of the saga. It's all over ROTS, Rey's Theme and Kylo's main idea quotes fragments of it and A New Home ends with it, concluding Rey's journey.

I deleted my original comment. Go on Google if you want to see Donald Duck and his cash.

The first Star Wars album cover that makes people say awww

Before TFA: No. After TLJ: I don't know. I'm so confused right now. The world is a scary place. After TROS: Yes! Revenge of the Sith is such a wonderful re-interpretation of the family and political drama of the OT. The Maestro really brought out the intense weight of the drama, the tragedy of a space Hitler rising and a family breaking into pieces. Padme's plea scene, the Star Destroyers rising scene (how much did JJ borrow from Sith???), the weird space opera scene are all great examples of a composer pouring in dense and mature emotions into the Star Wars universe.